The first stabbing was reported at 5:45 p.m. Monday at a home in the 21000 block of Eastern Valley Road in McCalla.

A 34-year-old is accused of stabbing a 49-year-old during a fight. No one was arrested, Baker said, because witnesses were too intoxicated to give coherent statements. An arrest could be made pending further investigation, he said. The victim was treated at UAB Medical West in Bessemer for a cut to his left leg and a superficial cut to his abdomen.

A few hours later at 10:30 p.m., Tuscaloosa Police were called to Copper Creek Apartments off 37th Street on a report that shots had been fired. Officers were approached by a 24-year-old man who said that he had just shot a 19-year-old in self-defense.

Police located the victim in the emergency room at DCH Regional Medical Center. He had been shot in the foot and gave a different version of events. Witnesses at the complex also gave conflicting accounts, Baker said. No arrests had been made as of Tuesday.

Early Tuesday morning, investigators were called to a home in Cottondale where two men had fought over a woman, Baker said.

Franklin Wedgeworth, 30, is accused of stabbing a 29-year-old victim several times. The man was treated at DCH for wounds to his back, shoulder and face. Wedgeworth was charged with attempted murder and remained in the Tuscaloosa County Jail Tuesday with bail set at $66,000.